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Definition of Slaughter

Slaughter The act of killing. The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts. Related Definitions: Act, As, Battle, Bloody, Butcher, Carnage, Cattle, Destruction, Extensive, For, Great, In, Kill, Killing, Life, Market, Of, Or, Other, Slay, The, To, Violent, Visit, Wanton, With

Slaughter Quotations If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. Winston Churchill Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. Michael Aston Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. Ida B. Wells How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? Lao Tzu

Slaughter Translations slaughter in Afrikaans is slag slaughter in Dutch is afslachten, slachten slaughter in Finnish is teurastaa slaughter in French is abattre slaughter in German is schlachten, schlachten, abschlachten slaughter in Italian is macellare slaughter in Latin is occidio, cruor slaughter in Spanish is matanza, carnear slaughter in Swedish is slakta, slakta, slakt

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